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Article: Apatite crystals were noted on the surface of collagen fibrils in woven bone.
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- Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week
- Article date:
- May 18, 2003
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2003 MAY 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Apatite crystals were noted on the surface of collagen fibrils in woven bone.
"The organization of collagen fibrils differs in woven bone and lamellar bone, and it reflects certain aspects of the nature of the mineral crystals associated with them," scientists writing in the journal Bone report.
"In order to investigate the morphology and distribution of apatite crystals in woven bone, mineralized collagen fibrils and isolated crystals from the mid-diaphyses of human fetal femurs were observed with scanning and transmission electron microscopy and high-resolution electron microscopy," wrote X. Su and colleagues, ...